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with Robert Harbin's " Mystery and Magic " ( 7.30 ) . After six years
with the Corporation , during which he started " Juke Box Jury " and
Harry Carroll from Leicester ( B B C , 8.25 ) . A
Hughes in his " Make Mine Music " ( B B C , 9.30 p.m. ) .
" I feel I 've done all I can at the B B C , " he
SONGS-OF-BRITAIN medley is sung by David
show tonight . Boxing fans can see an eight-round
feather-weight contest between Chris Elliot and
told me . " We mutually agreed to part . "
Escapologist Dill-Russell is a guest in Harbin's
are tranquilly sunny and still , for the town
a house in Anglesey-road is a congregation who
is at Mass . Most of it . In the front room of
and a brandy bottle .
never actually got to church , but who are
gathered with devotion around Brendan Behan
IT is mid-morning on a Dublin Sunday . The streets
hard-core Friends of Brendan . They listen
roller-coaster , with occasional stops for an old
brandy owner's solo swish on his anecdotal
amber inches in the bottle . Present are some
the empties ; through the door hearts are
full , hopes are high . There are still a few
Where the 2bhoys are . In the hallway are
I.R.A. air or a Connemara tear-jerker .
with many an obliging guffaw to the
place himself in the literary hierarchy .
above Nancy Mitford artistically , a
" But , " he continues , " the greatest is
" I consider myself , " he says , " a cut
Shelagh Delaney . Just because A Taste
At last Brendan - to the journalist's
above Evelyn Waugh socially , a cut
the writing scene . He proceeds to
relief - turns his attention to
cut above Frank Haxell conversationally .
unless I 'm exceedingly 2skint . " But I 'll
Royce a type of transport . She 's the
than educate . And I don't write at all
say this . I 'd like to live in America
and do some writing there .
That 's as bloody silly as calling a Rolls-
flower in a cultural desert . " Now , me - I 'm
a journalist , I write to entertain rather
the advantage that no one knows what
I was there , in even faster orbit , when that
Seventh Avenue , The Pigsty , always open .
you 're writing about anyway . " Not that I did
not with that great little Irish bar on
much when I was over this past two times ,
third astronaut went up - what 's his name ?
It 's a very free place to write in , and there 's
I 'm the only man on earth who doesn't know
the two biggest bores since Cardinal Newman .
on into reminiscences of his trips . There is
what his name is . Don't tell me . I want to
preserve that distinction . " I already know about
Shepard and that Salvation Army chap Gagarin -
much to recall .
That 's enough of all that hooey . " HE plunges
Canadians put up a mouse . "
will put a postage stamp into orbit before you
York's St. Patrick's Day parade as a " disorderly
Among other incidents he was banned from New
" Ireland will put a shillelagh into orbit , Israel
will put a matzo ball into orbit , and Lichtenstein
Canadian , during a chat about space-flight :
person . " He was in a fight after telling a
And he suffered an alcoholic
seizure and was gravely ill in
heard of often in the newspapers -
condition . His return to Dublin was
three times up before the beaks for
alcoholic . " Since then he has been
heralded by the announcement that
hospital with a diabetic and heart
he was " off the gargle - a retired
drunk and disorderly conduct .
Stratford , last spring ? It was never finished .
and The Hostage was put on . What has happened to
five years since his first play , The Quare Fellow , was
LESS has been heard of Brendan's work . It is now
the play , Richard's Cork Leg , begun 18 months ago
produced , three years since Borstal Boy was published
and due for presentation at the Theatre Royal ,
I have before me now a 12,000-word manuscript of
begins : " There was a party to celebrate Deirdre's
return from her abortion in Bristol . "
by his publishers in March of last year ? Still a skeleton . Yet
What happened to the new book partially tape-recorded
a book planned to be called Confessions of an Irish
Rebel which was delivered to his agents in June . IT
round for the pals , one of whom cries :
It is ribald , funny , brilliantly observant
10 note on to the bar and orders a
end ? The last scene of this fragment
of draught porter . But will we see its
of character , and authentic as a glass
is in a pub where the author throws a
thing this week I have never before witnessed ,